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  • Annual Meeting 2025

    143rd Annual Meeting Episcopal Church Women,Diocese of North Carolina Saturday, November 15, 2025, 9 AM – 3:30 PM The Station at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church875 W. 5th St. Winston-Salem NC 27101 Special Guest: Lisa Bortner President, National Episcopal Church Women Sharing her vision for… ECW Reimagined! National ECW is a churchwide organization dedicated to empowering Episcopal…

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  • ECW Missions: A Primer

    The call of all Episcopal Church Women to mission work dates back more than a century to the earliest days of ECW as an organized ministry. This call is summed up in our Missions Prayer: Almighty God, help us we pray Thee to shed abroad the light of They church in all the world. Give…

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  • Lex Mathews Scholarships Update – 2020

    Lex Mathews Scholarship Fund ReportAnnual Meeting 2020 2020 Scholarship Recipients Name Tracey Vail Jennifer T. Jones Area of Study Advanced Disciple Training Program Tuition Grant – Final Semester for BS Church Sponsor St. Luke’s, Salisbury St. Titus’, Durham Amount $1700 $2000

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  • The Epiphany Offering

    The Epiphany Offering Many years ago, the Epiphany Offering was begun by the Episcopal Church Women with a corporate communion service and a “thanks be to God” offering reminding us of the first missionaries – the Wise Men – who took the good news of the birth of the Christ child to the Gentiles in…

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  • The Rev. Martha Deng Nhial

    Martha Deng Nhial, also known as Nhiebol, her childhood name, is a trained nurse who for years worked at the diocesan clinic in Renk Town. A leader in the Mothers’ Union as well, she was an obvious choice to be among the first ordained women in the Diocese. Martha is well-respected in town, a leader…

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  • Annual Meeting 2019

    Annual Meeting 2019 Invitation and Keynoter Annual Meeting 2019 Agenda Annual Meeting 2019 Lodging Annual Meeting 2019 Directions Annual Meeting 2019 Book of Remembrance Annual Meeting 2019 Eucharistic Offering Annual Meeting 2019 History Focus

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  • The Rev. Deborah Akon Wei

    Deborah Akon Wei, who grew up in a family with a Muslim father, decided to become a Christian in 1973. Growing up in Malakal, a major city along the White Nile in South Sudan, she lived near a Christian cemetery, and remembers hearing the songs of hope being sung and the Bible being read at…

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  • Annual Meeting 2019 Invitation and Keynoter

    137th Annual Meeting Episcopal Church Women, Diocese of North Carolina Traveling the Way of Love: Responding to Human Needs through Loving Service Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2, 2019 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1737 Hillandale Rd., Durham NC 27705 What is the Way of Love? It has been described as a tool for understanding…

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  • MARGARET MITCHELL HAY STALLINGS

    November 22, 1919 – October 11, 2005 by Charles K. (Ken) McCotter, Jr., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, NC, 2016 Margaret Mitchell Hay StallingsMargaret Mitchell Hay Stallings was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She was the daughter of Samuel Marion Hay and Mabel Sutherland Mitchell Hay. She was reared in Mount Pleasant, across the Cooper…

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  • JEAN S. SMITH

    February 9, 1923 – May 6, 2000 by Episcopal Church Women of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Hamlet, NC, 2014 Jean S. Smith was born in Richmond, Virginia. After her marriage to John B. Smith, Jr., Jean moved to Hamlet, North Carolina. Jean and John had two daughters, Gretchen and Gail.  While living in Hamlet Jean…

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  • ANN VICTORIA HARRIS BUSTARD

    by Victor William Bustard, M.D., Christ Episcopal Church, New Bern, North Carolina, 2016 Ann Bustard was born in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, where she attended elementary, middle, and high school. Her family attended Trinity Anglican Church where she was baptized, confirmed and married. After graduation from high school, she continued her education at the University of…

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